It is a bit like that When I am organising for someone to do this for the army to help identify a soldier, we only get one shot at it so don't need any contaminations eg dog and cat out of the room, (mine would want to help) and not to mention the wee grandchildren who might want to also "help" No contaminations allowed. the one I did, it had two swabs, one for each cheek and eight hours apart. cheers Marg -----Original Message----- From: Viola Wiggins via Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 1:45 PM To: Anne Sterling ; fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD dna test companies Anne I can just picture you at the bedside, all smocked and masked, with a Q tip in your gloved hand. Vi > All, > > I have tested with both 23andme and ftdna companies. Dr. Maurice Gleeson > will tell you that ftdna has more people tested and therefore more > possible matches. I have found some new relatives on 23and me, but all my > family test subjects have been people who test with ftdna. I find their > system easier to understand and better for comparisons. > I have had my mother tested, for example, and when her great grandchildren > are born it will be possible to see how much they match her. A great gran > is on average 12.5% dna to a child, the same amount as a first cousin. > Since it is a random process by which we are created, the amount by which > we match varies. One of my cousin matches is 758 centimorgans and another > is 1030 centimorgans . ( No, I am not rushing to the hospital the minute a > baby is born, even if I would like to do so.) > Anne in Ottawa > ================================== > > https://www.google.ie/ > ================================== > http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ================================== https://www.google.ie/ ================================== http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message